October 9, 2006
Infants whose parents have allergies that produce symptoms like wheezing, asthma, hay fever or hives risk developing allergic sensitization much earlier in life than previously reported, according to a study by Cincinnati researchers.
October 10, 2006
More than two million American men have osteoporosis, or weakening of the bones, but very few of them are aware of this major health problem.
October 11, 2006
UC physiologist Jay Hove, PhD, has been awarded a four-year, $1.53 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health to create a tool, a laser-illuminated 4-D camera, that he hopes will provide scientists with a better way to study cell and fluid movement in three dimensions plus the fourth D real time.
October 12, 2006
UC physicians are using a new technique that involves injecting patients with millions of tiny radioactive glass beads to control advanced, inoperable liver cancer.
October 14, 2006
Ultrasound tests performed in a doctor s office may be more sensitive in detecting recurrence of the two most common types of thyroid cancer than the standard whole-body radioiodine scans and serum thyroglobulin tests, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC).
October 16, 2006
An estimated 20 million Americans suffer from diabetes and 6 million of them don't even know it. Some of those who are unaware they have diabetes can be screened for it at a health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 26.
October 17, 2006
The majority of Americans who turn their clocks back one hour on Oct. 29 may think they re gaining an hour of sleep. But UC sleep expert Victoria Surdulescu, MD, says this isn t really the case.
October 17, 2006
The University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center has received a $2.5 million gift from the Dr. Stanley and Mickey Kaplan Foundation to support the department of psychiatry. A $2 million portion of the gift will establish the Dr. Stanley and Mickey Kaplan Endowed Chair in Psychiatry.
October 18, 2006
New research from the University of Cincinnati suggests that the widely abused club drug ecstasy, or MDMA, can increase the survival of dopamine cells in the brain during fetal development.
October 19, 2006
The annual report of invention disclosures at the University of Cincinnati, and deals made with industry to develop them, shows a significant increase in ideas that may one day be brought to market, according to the head of UC s Intellectual Property Office.